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Andrew Thomas House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“Andrew Thomas House, also known as Camden-Jackson Township Public Library, is a historic home located at Camden, Indiana. It was built in 1869, and is a transitional Greek Revival / Italianate style brick dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Andrew Thomas House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 37 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84000485- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
The ground it stands on
262 words
The chapter on Jackson Township in History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names Camden. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The early ministers were circuit riders, and held religious services at the school houses. The German Baptist church was organized in Camden in 1829. The Cumberland Presbyterian church was organized in 1830. The Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1831. Camden Meth¬ odist Episcopal church was organized in 1846. Paint Creek Baptist church was organized in 1832. Camden Baptist church was organized in 1834. St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran church was organized in 1846. Camden is the only town in this township, and is located near the center of the town¬ ship. It was laid out and platted in 1836. It maintains a high school, has two banks, fine churches, good stores and improved streets. Its population is about one thousand. It is an incorporated town. The Vandalia railroad runs through this town.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Andrew Thomas House: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Camden, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Thunderstorm gust observed at County Roads 500 North and 225 East. Hail about 0.5 inches in diameter lasted about 5 minutes. Winds blew down a 2 inch limb from a healthy hardwood tree on North Monroe Street in Camden.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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